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A couple of important postings that may save you some $$$$ 2 Gigs of free photo hosting at Zooomer for blogggers. Find out how to get yours. I got mine. AOL offers free Anti-Virus program to members and NON- members....
Some recent postings at Edugenic Park: A brand new OSX desktop Wiki. TiddlyWiki: Park is based on TiddlyWiki. Easy Installation of TiddlyWiki makes it extremely easy to place on your machine. Mynoteit a web service for Students Studicious...
Some ditties at EduGenic Lycos offers 3 gig of email storage and more.viJournal has been updated. This may be of interest to vJournal and Blogger webloggersReelBean is a free video player, editor and convertor. Writely updatesAOL services are free and will offer 5 gigs of online storage starting in September!...
After a 4 month hiatus, I am posting again on disruptive apps as Aldelgado.com At present I am blogging from Chiapas, Mexico waiting for my next year teaching assignment. Will it be Third Grade or Learning Technology or some variant?...
Wiki news. After moving from Instiki to Hierarki to third party hosting on stikipad, I am back to instiki. It will grow along with my tech blog Mediagenic at http://aldelgado.com With its resurrection, some of the info is old. Hopefully, I will get this up to date, asap. Link: Al's Mediagenic Wiki....
For Windows users, a service to get you a discount on shareware software. The offer is only good for one day. It is similar to MacZot for Macintosh users. Since I do not use Windows, leave a comment on their service. Hopefully, this business model will promote the work done by shareware programmers and small software development companies. Link: Bits...
I will be moving my technology oriented postings over here and leave Educational Blogs.com to be more about Education and activism. I am using the LightPress system with my WordPress 1.5 install. I hope to jump to version 2 of WordPress as soon as lightpress is able to make the jump as well. Then again, I here version 2 is...
Send an email or letter to your congressperson, Senators and Big Internet Providers. Voice your opinion against greed and arrogance. Link: Take Action: Defend Net Freedom Now!. Defend Net Freedom Now! What if ATT blocked you from viewing your favorite podcasts and blogs? Verizon cut off your net phone because you weren't using their service? Comcast forced you to download...
Dear reader, Help keep the Internet free and open. Learn about the situation and hopefully you will sign the online petition. Click on link below. Link: MoveOn.org Civic Action: Democracy in Action. Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities, plus MoveOn's online organizing ability, will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law...
SolutionWatch puts out a large list of possible solutions for you if you take notes, etc. There were some I didn't know, and I follow quite a few web services on this site. Link: Fifty Ways to Take Notes � Solution Watch. I am constantly writing notes. Whether it be for my blog, work, meeting, new ideas, or just basic...
New hosting blogware service. A free Beta. Link: LifeLogger. Log unlimited blog entries Log up to 150 media files every month Upload up to 100MB per file...
Free chat and IM service by the folks you brought you zohowriter. Link: Zoho Chat - make group discussions faster....
If you have a Gmail account, you can tryout the new Google calendar that is in beta. The link is provided below. Too bad my school district offers only MS Outlook Access Webmail. It sucks! It seems MS Outlook is the standard for quite a few universities. I have to meet a person who likes MS Outlook Webmail. It is...
Here is a reFeed of Educational Webloggers. A permanent link is now located on the top left hand sidebar. Did I forget anybody? addelgado at gmail.com http://my.reblog.org/reblogs/educationalweblogs Link: This is a reFeed of Educational Webloggers | My Hosted reBlog....
A new Structured Blog Site that supports Movable Type and WordPress systems with plugins. Why? From website: Using these plugins makes it easy to create, edit, and maintain different kinds of posts. structured blogging wordpress Structured Blogging menu for Wordpress It's very similar to the default publishing form in blog software like Wordpress or MT, except that the structure will...
A Web 2.0 webservice that is for teachers, students and parents. Just looking at the gui, reminds of basecamp that we use at my school as in intranet for administration, teachers and some student project. This seems to be the first online web service of this type for schools! I signed up to a free account for my morning technology...
Through Lycos, Windows and Macintosh users can get Qumana's weblog editor for free. In addition, you can get Lektora, Qumana's RSS for free as well. Qumana's desktop application reminds me of Userland's Radio. One advantage of desktop blog editors is that you can work offline and save your work on your hard drive. Link: Lycos-Qumana blog editor and blogging tools....
A GIS for History website. Get a peek at a site still in development. Dr. Joshua Rodinsky, of the UIC School Education, is leading this effort. There is data from the Great Migration online. We have worked with Joshua in the past and two of our 6th grade teachers are co-authors on one paper being presented at the AERA Convention...
An essay contest for HS Students. Great theme! Pass it on! Link: High school essay competition: How listening to a story inspired me to work for peace (storyteller-and-listener). (Educators and parents: Please be alert to essays your students are writing that address this competition's focus on storytelling and peace.) The Storyteller and the Listener Online is launching its first essay...
Since I am now on vacation, I can play a little bit with some online tools. Here is a reblog feed I am working on using refeed. The more sites will appear on the opml blogroll as I publish the posts. So there are a bunch not showing right now. I have another just made from edblogging teachers. I experimented...
Great article on the shameful '65-percent Solution for public schools. Nora Carr dissects the Sound Bite' campaign of the right wing. Toward the end of the article, she tells her reader how they can fight back against the public school bashers. Start by posting your reaction and a link to the article on your blog! Pass it on! Link: eSchool...
Free Blog and photo hosting by Opera.com. The folks who brought you the opera browser, have an offer you may accept, Free hosting. Link: Opera Community. Welcome to Opera Community guy A free community site for everyone. With 300 MB of free space you can keep a blog and share photos and files. Sign up now...
Simple WordPress Blog editor for OSX users. Donationware Link: Automagic Software Pty Ltd. Blog Thing PantherTiger Blog Thing is a simple blogging application for the non-technical person (Grandma). It contains just enough features to allow the person with a single blog to make posts containing different fonts, coloured text and images. If you can write an email you can now...
If you use Apple's new iWeb web site building software, you may have felt shortchanged by the product. While Apple provides some very good looking templates, there was no easy way to add your own html or scripts. iWeb Enhancer seems to address that need to customize one's iWeb built site. I hope to give it a work out at...
iRows the online spreadsheet web service has updated its offering. Link: What's new - iRows. 2 Apr 2006 Starring favorite data sheets Added a convert function that can convert (for example) miles to kilometers, but also US Dollard to UK Pounds, using the up-to-date exchange rate Changed all URLs to be shorter and simpler 26 Mar 2006 Sign in directly...
Isaac Garcia from Central Desktop sent me a note about his web service company known as Central Desktop. Their motto is, organize, share and collaborate. This is a solution for small groups There is a free version of this service (after 30 days you can only perform 50 activities per calendar month) and paid plans as well. They offer a...
Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion, posts a quick profile of the new blog host on the block. Check out his post . He points to a comparison chart that shows that eponym is right there with the rest of the hosted blog systems. They have a free and paid plans. Link: eponym.com ~~ Start Blogging! ~~....
Postino is a new OSX Feed aggregator. Below are listed some of the features. This will cost you 25 dollars. Link: Welcome to Coladia : Postino - RSS/Atom Reader for MacOS X. First Release Includes: * Intuitive Interface * Use of Safari Web Engine * Support for Tab Browsing * Feeds Auto-Discovery * RSS Directory * Smart Lists Management *...
Interarchy has been updated to version 8. Interarchy and Fetch were maybe the two best known ftp applications on the Mac going back to the classic days. Interarchy bills itself as being very fast. $39 dollars and $19 dollars for the upgrade or crossgrade. Link: Interarchy 8.0: File Transfer Software - The Client For FTP Mac OS X. Interarchy 8.0...
Mashable has posted a good article on a new podcasting service call Evoca. i agree with his analysis that Evoca is working on the KISS principle by making the process to make audio tracks simple and accessible to about most everybody. Below is the the intro from his post. Just visiting the site will make you want to sign up...
Link: viJournal. has been updated . Post to Blogger or Live Journal sites. $16.95 Mac OSX only. Latest Release: 1.6.3 25 March 2006 This version includes the following enhancements and bug fixes: Fixed bug which prevented insertion of checkboxes in notes. Fixed bug which prevented checkbox state changing in scratch pad. Fixed bug which caused the main window to display...
Site Tagger has been updated to version 2.2 for Macintosh users running OSX 10.4 10 dollars will get you a license. Here is what is new. Applescript recordable! Improved applescript menu including: Instant menu updating when adding, removing, or renaming scripts BBEdit-style script organization Keyboard shortcut customization Can open multiple bookmarks in browser at once Can now edit a collection...
Solution Watch has a review of this cool new web service that allows you to build diagrams online or collaborate in the building diagrams with others online. This service is still in private beta. You can add your name to the beta testing list. Link: Gliffy.com - Diagram and draw in your web browser. What can I do with Gliffy?...
Concept Q, the desktop search program has been updated. Search the web and your hard drive. Runs on Windows and Macintosh. The cost is $29 dollars for the this version . The Professional version costs $79 dollars. There is a demo version to try before you buy. Link: Q-Phrase: Next Generation Search. ConceptQ is the first personal research and discovery...
Quece is a search web wervice that is in beta. If you want to try it out, you must email the company for a password. Link: Q-Phrase: Next Generation Search. Features Making Keywords Obsolete Imagine how great it would be if you did not have to use keywords to search the web. What if you could translate your thoughts directly...
OSX users, Podcast Maker gets updated. $29.95 dollars. MacWorld gives it a perfect 5 rating. New features and changes: Advanced options for podcast. Available through the View menu. Creative commons license support in the advanced options. Podtrac support in advanced options. You now have two choices for chapter image types in the preferences: jpeg and png. Episodes have an info...
Netvibes, the browser based personalized home page portal ups the ante by offering you 1 GB of storage. See their blog for more info. When one is against Google and Yahoo, one needs to pull out all the stops. Link: Netvibes launch a 1 GB personal web storage module ! - Netvibes.com Blog. Now you have a 1 GB hard...
Add calendar feature to Mozilla's Thunderbird. Link: The Lightning Project - Integrated Calendar. * * Projects * Coding o Module Owners o Hacking o Get the Source o Build It * Testing o Releases o Nightly Builds o Report A Problem * Tools o Bugzilla o Tinderbox o Bonsai o LXR * FAQs The Lightning Project The Lightning Project is...
If you are using your customized/personalized version of google home page quite often, you can add bookmarks to that page easily with this bookmarklet , that supports labels, star and notes, as mentioned in the post. It was fast and easy when i tried it out! Link: bluedot.net � Google Bookmarks bookmarklet. I love del.icio.us and dont plan on switching...
A new web service for making slideshows online. Looks very cool. I will try it out tonight. Check it out. http://slideroll.com/?s=rtmpfbje Link: Photo Slideshows with Music: About Slideroll™ - Add Flash to flickr, myspace, xanga, and Blogger. Slideroll™ is online slideshow software that allows people to create smooth, video-like slide shows and publish them on the web. Slideroll™ is unique...
Cool interop between applications. You have to download the beta of NetNewsWire to have the functionality to use Pukka and post to Del.licio.us Link: Code Sorcery Workshop - Pukka NetNewsWire = ♥. We’re happy to announce that the latest NetNewsWire Beta has added support for a del.icio.us posting client in addition to a normal external blogging client. What’s more, Pukka...
reBlog .... very fast and quick... efficient. Watch out Bloglines!LifeHacker has intall tips and a video screencast on reblog's speed. A must see!!http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1769970635441545616 Link: reBlog by Eyebeam RD. About reBlog What is a reBlog? A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select...
As I was working on my desktop version of instiki wiki, I was writing some short notes regarding desktop weblog editors this morning on the train to school. Every time I think about Userland's Radio, I remember a great desktop application that was way ahead of its time! Why Radio never took off... only the folks at Userland know. More...
Here are the changes to the OSX desktop blog editor MarsEdit by Brent Simmons of NetNewsWire fame. Changes in MarsEdit 1.1.2 from site. A new backups feature. Before a post is sent to the server, a copy of the post is written to ~/Library/Application Support/MarsEdit/Backups/. That way if the server has some sort of internal error, and tells MarsEdit all...
Performancing Metrics helps you keep track of your blog traffic. The service is in public beta and free so far. Performancing is also the developer of the very cool free Firefox extension that lets you blog directly from FireFox. Link: Performancing Site | Helping Bloggers Succeed. Performancing Metrics is here! All you need to know, across all of your blogs:...
Campfire, the chat service by the great Chicago based company, 37 Signals, has a free for For Life basic plan! Gone is the 30 day trial. Excellent! Link: Campfire update: Free-for-life plan, higher plan limits, and more - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals). True to our Getting Real suggestion to release a significant update in 30 days, we have some...
A good tutorial on tagging one's library of photos. I will share this wih our school reporters who are developing a large library of digital photos in iPhoto. Link: Tagging iPhoto � All Forces. Most people I know don’t know that iPhoto can be tagged with keywords. Or if they do they don’t know how to use them. They’re not...
Shutterbug 2.O enters the OSX platform website development for regular folks niche. It joins, Apple's iWeb, Karelia's Sandvox, and the mature app Rapidweaver. I will try this out. If you buy the current version of Shutterbug at 34 dollars, you get version 2 free. If you wait, you will have to pay 50 dollars for the new version when it...
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